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__ Topic 16 __ : __Let's Go to the Moon__ (Lesson 16) What is important to know about the Moon? Main idea and details.

__ Common Core Standards __ RI.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. RI.1.2 Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. RF.1.3c Know fnal -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds. L.1.1j Produce and expand simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences. W.1.3 Write narrartives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal first to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure. 4.P5.2a The forces of gravity and magnetism can affect objects through gases, liquids, and solids.

__ Suggested Student Objectives __ SW list the main idea and details to each part of the story. SW blend and read words with the long 'o' and 'u' sounds. SW produce a topic appropriate interrogative sentence in writing.

__ Suggested Additional Readings: __ __Healthy Habits and Let's Move__ (Extend the Common Core Standard) __The Moon __ (Orr, Tamra) __Weird But True Sp ace Facts__ (Bredeson, Carmen)

__ Resource Links: __
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__ Activities __ Using magnetic letters, teacher will dictate words with the long 'o' and 'u' sounds. Students will form that word with letters. Using a graphic organizer to recall and distinguish sequence, students will write about a time that they found or discovered something new.

__ Assessments __ Spelling and Journey's Lesson 16 Weekly assessments. Score writing based upon a topic sentence, supporting details and a closing sentence that correctly relate the to what was found or discovered.

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